Amtrak service between New York Penn Station and New Rochelle is scheduled to be restored Wednesday afternoon, following a transformer hearth Tuesday that halted trains on their tracks.
Work crews had been making emergency observe repairs to the Hell Gate Line Wednesday morning, and Amtrak hoped to revive service by 2 p.m., officers from the federal passenger railroad stated in an announcement.
“Amtrak is communicating directly with impacted customers about this service interruption and offering options for rebooking their travel plans,” the assertion added.
An MTA spokesperson stated Metro-North Railroad was nonetheless cross-honoring Amtrak tickets on its New Haven Line, and would till service was restored.
Service was suspended on Amtrak’s Hell Gate Line connecting Penn Station to factors north Tuesday after an oil-cooled electrical transformer within the Bronx caught hearth round 2 p.m.
Amid present space drought situations which have seen scores of latest brush fires, the transformer blaze unfold to brush alongside the tracks and a close-by car parking zone, requiring 60 FDNY personnel to convey it below management.
“It took us quite a while to extinguish that fire,” FDNY Chief of Operations Kevin Woods stated late Tuesday.
“We had to have all train traffic stopped,” Wooden stated. “We had to have [power removed from] the overhead catenary wires. We needed power also removed from the transformer.”
FDNY groups had been concurrently combating a large warehouse hearth close by, a few quarter mile away. Woods stated the blazes had been “two separate and distinct fires,” however that an investigation was ongoing to find out in the event that they had been associated.
“It was a very, very heavy fire in both the [warehouse] and the transformer,” Woods stated.
Initially Printed: November 13, 2024 at 12:51 PM EST
